This resource is a web-based guide based on comprehensive research in Australian archives and libraries of published sources for the study of the History of North Queensland.
Return, Reconcile Renew is a major research ongoing initiative, funded to date by the Australian Research Council. It has several aims, the most important of which is the application of various e-research techniques to provenance research, primarily to assist the repatriation of the bodily remains of Old People by Indigenous Australian communities.
I have an ongoing research interest in the theft and scientific uses of the bodily remains of Indigenous peoples in contexts of settler colonial colonialism. My 2017-18 book, Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century.
South Seas was created by myself and Chris Blackall. It’s testimony to what two people can do with meagre funding and what, at the turn of this century, was ignorant prejudice on the part of senior Australian academics against exploiting the educational potential of the web.